[TriLUG] how to make an arbitrarily sized ramdisk?

[Donald Ball]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, rpjday wrote:

> however, i just tried this under seawolf and it *refuses* to let me
> dd more than 4M.  i *swear* i used to be able to build >4M ramdisk
> filesystems like this.  i'm going to have to go back through my
> notes and see if i've done something differently.
>
> also, when i did this, it wasn't clear if there is a single command
> that will list my existing ramdisks.  is there one?  it also wasn't
> clear how to free the ramdisk memory when i no longer needed it.

that's a very good question and was going to be my followup. any takers?

- donald